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Program Requirements
This minor concentration may be expanded into the Major Concentration Geography (Urban Systems).
Complementary Courses (18 credits)
18 credits selected as follows:
Group A
9 - 12 credits selected from:
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GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Turner, Sarah (Winter)
- Winter
- 3 hours
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GEOG 217 Cities in the Modern World (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : An introduction to urban geography. Uses a spatial/geographic perspective to understand cities and their social and cultural processes. Addresses two major areas. The development and social dynamics in North American and European cities. The urban transformations in Asian, African, and Latin American societies that were recently predominantly rural and agrarian.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Forest, Benjamin; Oswin, Natalie (Winter)
- Note: Winter
- Note: 3 hours
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GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Ross, Nancy (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: One of the following: GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of instructor
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GEOG 311 Economic Geography (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Different theories and approaches to understanding the spatial organization of economic activities. Regional case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Asia used to reinforce concepts. Emphasis also on city-regions and their interaction with the global economy.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Breau, Sebastien (Fall)
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 216 or permission of instructor
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GEOG 315 Urban Transportation Geography (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Discusses the urban transportation problem and proposed solutions from a geographic perspective. Specific topics include an analysis of the land use-transportation system in North American cities; its social environmental impacts; the analysis of urban travel behaviour; and the geographical implications of various policy alternatives.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 217 or permission of instructor
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GEOG 331 Urban Social Geography (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Social space and social time. The reflection of social structure in the spatial organization of the city. Historical perspective on changing personal mobility, life cycle, family structure and work organization. The appropriation and alienation of urban spaces.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Oswin, Natalie (Fall)
- Fall
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: GEOG 216 or GEOG 217 or permission of instructor
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GEOG 494 Urban Field Studies (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : Geographical research in urban public and semi-public spaces. Demonstration of techniques of mapping, sampling, measurement, photography, interviewing. Attention to research design.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Kalacska, Margaret; Turner, Sarah (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisites: One of the following: GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217, GEOG 272, or permission of instructor.
- A fee of $225 is charged to all students registered in GEOG 494 Urban Field Studies. The fee is used to support the cost of transportation, accommodations, local fees and all meals for a three day field trip. The Department of Geography will subsidize a portion of the cost of this compulsory activity for students registered in Geography Honours and Majors programs.
Group B
6 - 9 credits selected from:
Architecture
Although Architecture courses have prerequisites, they are waived for Urban Systems students, but the course may not be taken before the year indicated:
U2 - ARCH 378;
U3 - ARCH 515, ARCH 527, ARCH 528, ARCH 529, and ARCH 550.
ARCH 550 requires permission of the Geography adviser.
Note: ARCH 550 has the same content as CIVE 433 but requires an additional project.
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ARCH 378 Site Usage (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : The study of the creation, form and usage of the exterior space generated in various patterns of low-rise housing. Socio-cultural aspects of patterns; exterior space as a logical extension of the living unit; social control of the use of urban and suburban land; comparative model for low-rise housing patterns.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Drummond, Derek (Fall)
- (2-0-7)
- Prerequisite: ARCH 202 or permission of instructor
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ARCH 515 Sustainable Design (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : This course will address sustainable design theory and applications in the built environment with students from a variety of fields (architecture, urban planning, engineering, sociology, environmental studies, economics, international studies). Architecture will provide the focus for environmental, socio-cultural and economic issues.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Jelaco, Ronald Paul (Winter)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: ARCH 377 or permission of instructor.
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ARCH 527 Civic Design (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : The elements of form in buildings and their siting design in the urban setting.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Drummond, Derek (Winter)
- (2-0-7)
- Prerequisite: ARCH 378
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ARCH 528 History of Housing (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : Indigenous housing both transient and permanent, from the standpoint of individual structure and pattern of settlements. The principal historic examples of houses including housing in the age of industrial revolution and contemporary housing.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (2-0-7)
- Prerequisite: ARCH 251 or permission of instructor
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ARCH 529 Housing Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : A review of environmental alternatives in housing; contemporary housing and the physical and sociological determinants that shape it; Canadian housing.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Bhatt, Vikram (Fall)
- (2-0-7)
- Prerequisite: ARCH 528 or permission of instructor
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ARCH 550 Urban Planning and Development (3 credits)
Overview
Architecture : A survey of municipal, regional and provincial actions to guide urban development in Canada, with a particular emphasis on Montreal and Quebec. It also introduces students to concepts in real-estate development and highlights the relationship between developers and planners.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Otero, Jose (Winter)
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: B.Sc.(Arch.) or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not normally open to Urban Planning students
Civil Engineering
CIVE 433 requires departmental permission to register (call, 514-398-6345).
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CIVE 433 Urban Planning (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : The City in History. The planning profession, evolution of planning in North America, Canada and Quebec. Planning theories, the general or master plan, planning processes and techniques, planning and design of residential subdivisions. Local planning issues, housing policies, planning laws.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Otero, Jose (Winter)
- (3-1-5)
- Restriction: Not open to U0 and U1 students.
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CIVE 540 Urban Transportation Planning (3 credits)
Overview
Civil Engineering : Process and techniques of urban transportation engineering and planning, including demand analysis framework, data collection procedures, travel demand modelling and forecasting, and cost-effectiveness framework for evaluation of project and system alternatives.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Miranda-Moreno, Luis (Winter)
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: CIVE 319 or permission of instructor.
Economics
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ECON 348 Urban Economics (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : Economic explanations for the rise of cities; their economic benefits and externalities. Economic challenges to cities in the modern context. Examination of municipal policies and of economic, legal and political constraints on cities.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: ECON 208.
- Restriction: For U2 or U3 students only.
Geography
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GEOG 307 Socioeconomic Applications of GIS (3 credits)
Overview
Geography : GIS applied to the spatial analysis of socioeconomic and market data. Topics include geographic market segmentation, geodemographics, spatial decision-support systems and modelling applications of GIS. Empirical focus is on analysing spatial patterns of population and consumption characteristics in cities and on facility location problems. Emphasis on visualization and problem solving.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Sengupta, Raja (Winter)
- Winter
- 2 hours and laboratory
- Prerequisites: GEOG 201, MATH 203 or equivalent
History
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HIST 353 History of Montreal (3 credits)
Overview
History : The history of Montreal from its beginnings to the present day. Montreal's economic, social, cultural and political role within the French and British empires, North America, Canada, and Quebec; the city's linguistic and ethnic diversity.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Gray, Colleen Allyn (Winter)
- Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 or permission of the instructor.
Law
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PUB1 004 Land Use Planning (3 credits)
Overview
Public Law 1 : A comparative study of private and public control of land use and development, involving master plans, zoning bylaws, subdivision control, urban re-development, expropriation, and regional planning.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Political Science
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POLI 318 Comparative Local Government (3 credits)
Overview
Political Science : An examination of the organization and conduct of local government in Canada, the United States, and selected European countries. Attention to theories of local government, the criteria for comparative analysis, the provision of public goods and bads, urban political patterns and the constitution of new institutional arrangements to deal with "urban crises" in North America.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: POLI 211 or POLI 212 or written permission of instructor
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developed Areas; also in the field of Canadian Politics.
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POLI 337 Canadian Public Administration (3 credits)
Overview
Political Science : Organization and practice of public administration at the federal provincial and local level in Canada. Contrasting theories/techniques of public administration and policy, organization of field offices for delivery of essential public services, governments as employers, and institutional and policy changes to resolve crisis inherent in "the paradoxical view of bureaucracy".
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Depow, Elaine (Winter)
- Prerequisite: at least one other course in Canadian government or politics
- Note: The field is Canadian Politics.
Urban Planning
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URBP 201 Planning the 21st Century City (3 credits)
Overview
Urban Planning : The study of how urban planners respond to the challenges posed by contemporary cities world-wide. Urban problems related to the environment, shelter, transport, human health, livelihoods and governance are addressed; innovative plans to improve cities and city life are analyzed.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Bornstein, Lisa (Fall)
- (3-1-5)
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URBP 501 Principles and Practice 1 (2 credits)
Overview
Urban Planning : This six-week intensive course exposes students to issues and techniques that are applicable in diverse professional planning contexts. The subject matter, geographic area, scale of intervention and institutional location of planning varies from semester to semester. The course focuses on a specific case study and is taught by a visiting lecturer with professional experience in the selected subject matter.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- (2-0-4)
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URBP 506 Environmental Policy and Planning (3 credits)
Overview
Urban Planning : Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing urban and other environmental problems at various scales; characteristics of environmental problems and implications; political-institutional context and policy instruments; risk perception and implications; cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, multiple-objectives approaches, life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; case studies.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Badami, Madhav Govind (Winter)
- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: This course is open to students in U3 and above
Faculty of Arts—2010-2011 (last updated Jan. 19, 2011) (disclaimer)